The War on Christmas is nothing compared to the War on Hanukkah

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Nov 29, 2013 at 11:10 AMNov 29, 2013 at 3:45 PM

With Thanksgiving behind us, America’s self-appointed guardians of Yuletide orthodoxy — Sarah Palin and Fox News Channel, among others — are now ready to raise the volume in their annual campaign of complaints against what they see as the War on Christmas.

But wait! What’s this?

Why, it’s a Jewish guy, Andy Ostroy, who SAYS the war in his town is against Hanukkah rather than Christmas:

If there’s a war on Christmas it’s certainly news to me. I live in New York, a city with more Jews per square inch than anywhere in the world except Israel. Yet this time ...

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With Thanksgiving behind us, America’s self-appointed guardians of Yuletide orthodoxy — Sarah Palin and Fox News Channel, among others — are now ready to raise the volume in their annual campaign of complaints against what they see as the War on Christmas.

But wait! What’s this?

Why, it’s a Jewish guy, Andy Ostroy, who SAYS the war in his town is against Hanukkah rather than Christmas:

If there’s a war on Christmas it’s certainly news to me. I live in New York, a city with more Jews per square inch than anywhere in the world except Israel. Yet this time ...

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